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>Martin Schlander wrote:
>> Onsdag 30 august 2006 18:59 skrev Dominique Leuenberger:
>>> according to nVidia there is NO restriction for distribution on
>>> their driver.
>>> A good place for it would thus probably also be the Build-Server,
>>> wouldn't it? With a dependency on the Kernel, if I understand this
>>> system right, the BuildService would trigger a recompile of the module.
>>>
>>> Any comments on this are more than welcome!
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>> I believe the primary reason that SUSE/Novell do not host the current KMPs are
>> issues with GPL and kernel devs.
>>
>> As long as Nvidia are not in compliance I don't think the KMPs can be shipped
>> through official channels - at least not with the current policy, with which
>> I agree completely.
>>
>> Or do the KMPs solve all the legal issues that the traditional kernel modules
>> had?
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>No, the KMPs are not there to solve legal issues.
>Well, it can solve the legal issue for Novell, if someone builds and
>hosts nVidia KMPs elsewhere ;)
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>nVidia KMP maintainer, anyone ? (e.g. hosted on Packman)

What sort of legal issue are we talking about? The driver, according to nVidia, can be freely distributed. The only issue I can see is the point of the kernel maintainers. But if somebody would put the drivers on the BuildServer, this shouldn't be a problem in my opinion.

 

I would offer to make it myself, BUT I'll need some help, as I never did some RPMs before... I think at least for the first, I'd need some good examples and instructions.

 

Using the Build Service, we could offer drivers for all kernels and versions of openSUSE (the topic arised for me as nVidia released a newer driver than the one available as RPM at the moment)

 

Dominique